3 Kickstarter fashion companies in Boston
The Boston Globe
The three MIT graduate students involved in Ministry of Supply (From left: Kit Hickey, Aman Advani, and Gihan Amarasiriwardena) found that gents wearing dress shirts were none-too-pleased with a lack of evolution. Before heading into the process of designing their Apollo shirt, which begins shipping this week, the entrepreneurs talked to nearly 200 men about dress shirts — and these men did not give the wardrobe staple high marks for comfort. Which could explain why the Kickstarter campaign for Ministry of Supply raised more than 12 times its goal of $30,000. In the process, Ministry of Supply broke the record for most money raised by a fashion-start-up on Kickstarter.
